By Sean Carney on Friday, 12 September 2014
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I have installed version 1.3.1 and am trying to figure out where the 'Dating' feature is. How do I activate it so that people can search for other people based on age, gender, location, etc?

Once it is activated how do users perform the search? Is there some documentation on this?

Thank you, Sean Carney
https://www.starch-smart.com/
Hi Sean,

In this case somebody asked if we had members in England.

For the above, you might want to use 'advanced search' and search for address's country instead of the geolocation search

I am looking forward to future revisions to this module! :-)


Yep, we will see what we can do to improve this dating search module

Thanks again for your feedback and your suggestion.
Have a nice day
Sam
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Monday, 15 September 2014 10:30
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OK. I found it. I was not expecting it to be a module. :-)
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Friday, 12 September 2014 01:27
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Ok. I now have the dating module working on my site at https://www.starch-smart.com/social

I found that there is a problem with the Detect location button where it finds a list of possible locations but none are correct and it does not allow me to manually put in the correct address.

i would also love it if one of you css gurus could give me a little css override to move the title up and greatly reduce the white space between the banner and the title of the module. I named the module "https://www.starch-smart.com/social".

I would also appreciate some css tweak to space out the distance between Men, Women and Others...

And, in fact, I would like to greatly reduce the white space in this module to make it only about half as tall as it is so it won't take up so much of my vertical space in the sidebar-2 position.

Sean
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Friday, 12 September 2014 01:46
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Hi Sean,

I am sorry for the delay of this reply.

I found that there is a problem with the Detect location button where it finds a list of possible locations but none are correct and it does not allow me to manually put in the correct address.


I am sorry but currently the only to get your address is to hit the 'detect location' button We will see if we can add another input text box into this module so that user can enter the address manually

As for the spacing issue, I've added a css hack on your template css file 'JOOMLA/templates/motion/css/custom.css' and added below css code at line after 171:


.es-custom-dating .zen-module-title h3 {
margin: 0px 0px !important;
}

body div#fd .es-dating-search-form .radio-inline {
padding-top: 0px !important;
}

body div#fd.es .es-dating-search-form .radio-inline + .radio-inline {
margin-left: 20px !important;
}

body div#fd .es-dating-search-form .form-group {
margin-bottom: 5px !important;
}


Also, in your friend finder module, I've added a module css suffix called 'es-custom-dating'. This suffix is to work with the above css hack. Please see http://screencast.com/t/8Gu39VrL6P

Now your friend finder module will look like this http://screencast.com/t/stc2zcK5
The above screenshot was captured when the JCH optimizer plugin disabled. As for now, I've enabled back this JCH plugin and to see the custom css again, you will need to clear the cache from your Joomla and also from this JCH optimizer plugin.

Hope this help and have a nice day
Sam
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Friday, 12 September 2014 16:33
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Thank you so much for the edits to my custom.css file. You made the Dating friend finder much nicer looking. And, thank you for letting me know about the JCH Optimize Clear Cache option. I am still have a problem where the page is loading and displaying your very nice looking module and then about 10 or 15 seconds later it displays the old way. It reverts back. I also use a CDN and think I may have to flush the files for the module out of the CDN to get your changes to stick. I will let you know what happens.
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Friday, 12 September 2014 19:45
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today I was sure wishing the 'Friend Finder' would allow me to search for people within a specified geography. In this case somebody asked if we had members in England. And, my first thought was to go to the Dating module and try to look. But, that module assumes you are looking for somebody close to you. :-) I am looking forward to future revisions to this module! :-)
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Monday, 15 September 2014 09:10
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